Diaco Adding Richmond's Lineburg To UConn's Coaching Staff

It is unclear, however, which unit Lineburg will coach but it is expected to be a position on offense. Lineburg was also the running backs coach and recruiting coordinator for the Spiders this past season.

Lineburg, 39, joins Central Michigan's Mike Cummings, who will join the Huskies as offensive coordinator. Ernest T. Jones, who held an off-the-field role in player development at Notre Dame last season, will be running backs coach. Don Patterson is coming aboard as the associate head coach and quarterbacks coach after spending time at Buffalo and Josh Reardon, a graduate assistant at Notre Dame last season, will be the defensive backs coach under Diaco.

Mike Foley is the only holdover from UConn's 2013 staff. It is also not known which position he will coach.

Diaco, who became UConn's 30th head coach last month, has certainly reached out to people with whom he has coached before. That's the case with Lineburg, who coached receivers and running backs at Virginia from 2007-09. Diaco was the Cavaliers' linebackers and special teams coach from 2006-08.

Lineburg, a former quarterback at Virginia, had been offensive coordinator at Richmond in 2010-11 and was interim head coach in 2011.

In 2012 Lineburg helped guide a Richmond offense that ranked 20th in the nation in passing offense (271.2) and 21st in scoring offense (33.2). Richmond went 8-3 and earned a share of the Colonial Athletic Association championship that year. Last season Richmond went 6-6 overall, 4-4 in the CAA.

Paul Pasqualoni began the 2013 season as UConn coach and was fired after starting 0-4 after consecutive 5-7 seasons. He was replaced by T.J. Weist, who guided the Huskies to a 3-5 record the rest of the way. Weist and his staff, other than Foley, were not retained.